MediResources’ Senior’s Health 2007
“handing out free samples has at least one major benefit: it often does save patients money. In the free clinic where I used to practice, for example, the samples - birth control pills, antibiotics, etc. - were lifelines for some of our patients. But more important, I think, is that handing out samples rarely causes harm…

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